#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine Today Hera Board member and past President, Barbara Pagh shares a video from her studio. I have been working on these collages of handmade paper that are memories of colors as I look out at the sky and water in Matunuck at different times of day and weather conditions. Compositionally they go back to my minimalist roots with straightforward horizontal bands of color and texture. I find these collages meditative to make and a necessary respite from the news.
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#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine Hera artist Molly Kaderka installed her solo exhibition at the Jamestown Art Center right before social distancing and school, institution and business closures happened. Today she is sharing images from the exhibition. Enjoy! You can find information about the exhibition below the photographs. A Mythic Pause Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown RI https://www.jamestownartcenter.org/exhibitions March 5- April 25 Artist: Molly Kaderka (IG handle @mkaderka ) Contributing Furniture: Kit Howland (IG handle @kithowland ) Short Blurb A Mythic Pause creates an immersive environment with large-scale, site-specific paintings laminated directly to the walls. Using a combination of printmaking, drawing and painting, Kaderka depicts two different realms: the celestial and the terrestrial. Framed by a tactile printed rock surface, the circular compositions act as an aperture to the distant and int
#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine From Hera member, Susie Matthews The current pandemic is causing terrible things to happen to many, many people. While I do not want to underemphasize the severity of this tragedy, I am finding some beauty and joy during this time, especially on my walks and in my garden. Sharing this bit of inspiration cannot heal the sick or grow the economy, but I hope it might bring others some happiness. Spring is always a miracle. I am awed by the magic and strength of new growth rising up from the ground. The contrast of fresh, soft leaves coming out of hard, dull branches or earth exhilarates me. O ne of the earliest plants to emerge in the spring is skunk cabbage ( Symplocarpus foetidus). When I looked up the latin name, I learned that the part in the middle is a spadix, and the hooded part is a spathe. I have made sculptures that look like the spadix. This next i
#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine from Hera Member John Kotula An Old Artist on the Road In this Time of Contagion; three drawings, a photo, and reflections My wife, Deb Drew, had been planning to hike the Appalachian Trail for a long time. This year was the year! We left Rhode Island on March 13th, Friday the 13th, headed for the beginning of the Trail in Springer Mountain Georgia, where she would begin a six month, solo, through hike. The plan was that I ’d drop her off and continue on to Florida to do some volunteer work. As we started out, news of the Corona Virus epidemic was intensifying, but we saw no reason to change our plans. As we drove south, everything began to unravel. First my volunteer plans, which included living in close quarters with a group of people from across the US and working in agricultural communities began to feel like they posed too much risk of exposure. I cancelled and decided to bum around Florida on my own for a couple of weeks, b
#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine From Hera member Kathie Florsheim I am an inveterate gardener. Sometimes I grow plants I want to photograph. This amaryllis is one I grew this winter. Seeing it today makes my heart sing, its rich color is an urgent reminder that all is not lost. Sometimes my work rescues me.
#FOODFORTHOUGHTCREATIVEQAURANTINE A post from Hera Board President, Uli Brahmst on the transformative power of art. "The transformative power of art is so obvious each time an exhibition goes up or down. Empty spaces get completely and magically altered. " The images above are from Uli's recent exhibition as UMASS Dartmouth CVPA gallery, On Being a Woman, the first shows the exhibition in the space and the second shows the space after the exhibition was taken down. January-February 2020 These two images show Hera gallery during the opening reception for and during installation of our bi-annual children's exhibition. February 2020
#FoodforThoughtCreativeQuarantine #foodforthought #creativequarantine Looking for creative diversion, Hera Board Member Roberta Richman and her partner Sandra Enos explored a walk organized by the Newport Arboretum Society that takes you around downtown Newport to see a collection of 52 exceptional trees that they have often walked past without seeing. They intend to do all of them filing up a thermos and a picnic lunch for the next ones.Well worth doing if you’re looking for outdoor activities during this strange time we are living in. The Newport Arboretum Society allows you to download maps for each walk which is also great. http://newportarboretum.org/home/programs/newport-tree-walks/
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Creative Quarantine A note from Hera President, Uli Brahmst, Anxiety, chaos, doubt, and raw emotion are familiar territory for most artists and in many ways the ground we walk on and from which we lift ourselves every day to reach for a more inspiring reality. Hera member Kathie Florsheim called me yesterday morning pointing out that people look to the arts for mental and spiritual sustenance in times of crisis and that we at Hera need to respond to that call. I had started to discuss this blog the night before and Kathie’s comments focused me on the reality that artists are in a way experts on anxiety and on moving beyond it. We decided to share what Hera artists will be doing with their time in refuge. Mara Trachtenberg will be the editor in chief of this blog and our members are invited to post aspects of their daily creative experience. I am looking forward to be inspired by my peers at a time of great reconfiguration. I am convince